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Competencies Handout #1 Competencies Competencies 201-09-001 Knows the range of options for openness in adoption, their advantages and disadvantages, and the potential effects on children and their adoptive and birth families 201-09-002 Knows the characteristics of birth family members, adoptive family members, and adoptees that support adoption openness 201-09-003 Understands the potential ethical and practical dilemmas involved in open adoptions 201-09-004 Understands the nature of potential conflicts between adoptive and birth families in open adoptions and the effects on the child 201-09-005 Understands the benefit of openness in helping adopted children sustain relationships with people to whom they are strongly attached 201-09-006 Understands the effects of openness in helping children form their adult identities 201-09-008 Understands how an adopted child’s relationship with birth family members may change over time, depending on the child’s age, developmental needs, and birth family circumstances 201-09-010 Knows how to help adoptive and birth families negotiate and resolve conflicts in their relationship and in their roles with the child 201-09-011 Knows how to prepare adoptive families to anticipate and manage the challenges and stresses children experience from contact with birth family members 201-09-012 Can help families assess whether adoption openness should be considered and the most appropriate level of openness for the adopted child and family Openness in Adoption – 201-A9-S Written by IHS for the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program –Revised January 2009 Page 1 of 69 Handout #2 Agenda AGENDA OPENNESS IN ADOPTION DAY I SECTION I. Introductions SECTION II. Myth Busters SECTION III. Establishing Foundational Principles - Open Adoption vs. Openness in Adoption SECTION IV. Historical and Ethical Perspectives of Open/Closed Adoptions SECTION V. Advantages/Challenges for Triad Members SECTION VI. Long Term Issues/Feelings DAY II SECTION VII. Facilitation of Open Adoptions SECTION VIII. Openness Jeopardy SECTION IX. Opening a Closed Adoption SECTION X. Putting It All Together —Transfer of Learning Openness in Adoption – 201-A9-S Written by IHS for the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program –Revised January 2009 Page 2 of 69 Handout #3 Fact or Fantasy?? Fact or Fantasy?? 1. Openness in adoption refers to an ongoing, face-to-face relationship between the birth parents, the adopted child, and the adoptive parents. 2. When birth parents and adoptive parents enter into an open adoption agreement, they have entered into an agreement which is not legally binding or “enforceable” in court. 3. Social workers involved in open adoption work must maintain control of the placement and the relationship between the birth and adoptive parents. 4. Openness in adoption supports the child’s racial and cultural identity development. 5. When parental rights have been involuntarily terminated due to abuse/ neglect, the adoption should remain closed to protect both the child and the adoptive family. 6. Open adoption refers to a relationship between an adopted person and his or her birth parent(s). 7. Once an adoption is finalized, the parties cannot change their minds regarding the degree of openness. 8. Openness in adoption eliminates grief for the adopted person. 9. Open adoptions are similar to joint custody in divorce situations in that the birth parents and the adoptive parents will be co-parenting. 10. When conflicts arise in an open adoption relationship, the birth and adoptive families can turn to a mediator who, after talking with both parties in conflict, will make a decision about who is "right". Openness in Adoption – 201-A9-S Written by IHS for the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program –Revised January 2009 Page 3 of 69 Handout #4 Two Case Studies Open Adoption and Openness in Adoption: Two Case Studies The following are two case studies that examine family structured openness and open communicative process. Annalise, age 14 Part One Curly red hair and a quick wit describe Annalise, who entered her adoptive home as a newborn. Very little is known about her birth parents, except what was written on the note attached to her blanket and her physical description. Annalise was one of her state’s first Safe Haven babies and was taken to a local fire department just hours after birth. On the note her birth mother wrote – “please forgive me for doing this. I am just too young to take care of a baby. I am just 16 and am homeless.” The fire department official who was there on that cold evening described the young woman as petite, red-haired, very, very young and afraid. Although the agency involved in her placement into the adoptive family attempted many times to locate her birth mother within the community, all efforts failed. So much time has passed now, it is extremely doubtful that Annalise and her family will ever know anything. How would you characterize this adoption? Open or closed Part Two Despite the fact that Annalise’s parents have had no information about her birth parents except her birth mother’s physical description, they have been open and honest with her from the beginning. They have created a family atmosphere that is emotionally attuned to her needs. They are empathic to Annalise’s concerns and questions, talk openly, but not excessively about adoption issues, acknowledge the frustration of not knowing more about her birth family and acknowledge her frustration of not knowing more about them. Although her adoption is structurally closed, the family atmosphere can best be characterized by open, honest, and emotionally attuned communication.1 1 Brodzinsky, David and Palacios, Jesus, editors, (2007), Psychological Issues in Adoption, (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing), page 150 Openness in Adoption – 201-A9-S Written by IHS for the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program –Revised January 2009 Page 4 of 69 Micah, age 12 Part One Micah, a handsome, sensitive 12-year-old joined his family as an infant. Much is known about his birth parents and his birth extended family. Before Micah was born, his adoptive parents met his birth mother and birth father and both of their families. They exchanged all identifying information, unique family highlights and set up a plan for contact. Over the years, Micah has grown up visiting his birth mother and birth father about three times a year. He always receives birthday cards from his birth grandparents, as well as gifts on special occasions. He sees them usually over the Christmas holidays each year. If you ask Micah who he looks like, he quickly responds, “I look just like my birth dad and we even like the same sport team.” How would you characterize this adoption? Open or closed Part Two Although Micah has experienced a family structured open adoption and his parents have kept their promise, they admit to originally feeling pressured into this agreement. They knew if they didn’t agree, Micah’s birth mother would not have chosen them. Although they continue to allow the contacts, they do not talk to Micah about his birth family. Whenever his raises a question about his birth mother or why the adoption plan was made, his parents change the subject or provide somewhat superficial and “emotionally unattuned responses.”2 One of Micah’s unspoken frustrations (known only to a friend), is that his parents never allow him to express his feelings about his adoption. “Whenever I say something about how I feel about my adoption stuff,” Micah told a friend, “my parents always say, ‘there is no reason to feel that way….Mom and Dad love you so much.’” The atmosphere in Micah’s home around adoption issues lacks parental 3 sensitivity, understanding and appropriate responsiveness to his needs. 2 Brodzinsky 3 Brodzinsky Openness in Adoption – 201-A9-S Written by IHS for the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program –Revised January 2009 Page 5 of 69 Handout #5 Definitions Definitions 1. Confidential/Closed adoption – No identifying information is shared between the birth family and adoptive family. This is also called confidential or traditional adoption. Information may be given to the agency to update the records, but is not intended for transmission to either party (McRoy, et. al., 1998). 2. Semi-Open or Mediated Open Adoption - refers to the continuum of openness within relationships that can exist between members of the birth family and the adoptive family of a child. Openness may include knowledge of information about the “other” family of the child, the birthparent’s selection of an adoptive family for the child, contact through a third party, or ongoing visitation. The relationships may exist between the child, adoptive family and the birth parents or between the child, adoptive parents and birth siblings, grandparents, other relatives or kinship figures (including former foster parents). Mediated openness assumes the involvement of a third party who facilitates contact by passing letters and other communication between the all the parties involved. Mediated arrangements can look like this: In time-limited mediated adoptions, information had been shared through an agency caseworker but had stopped, with no plans to resume sharing. In ongoing mediated adoptions, information exchange mediated by the agency was currently occurring. 3. Fully Disclosed Open Adoption - means that everyone involved in the process, whether adoptive or birth parent, is Openness in Adoption – 201-A9-S Written by IHS for the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program –Revised January 2009 Page 6 of 69 open to meeting and talking with each other both prior to, and subsequent to, the placement. They know each other’s names and contact information. How much communication and contact will occur is impossible to say. But in an open adoption, the assumption exists that there will be as much communication as possible within the limits of courage, compassion, and common sense (Randolph Severson, 1997).
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